Exposition

A creative exploration of David Popper's op. 73 (2025)

Emma Zarzuela Castro
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About this exposition

Nearing the end of my academic training as a classical cellist, I decided to revisit David Popper's op. 73 (1901-1905), a very popular and widely studied opus of 40 études for the cello. As is the case for most cellists, these études have been present in my practice since the early stages of my studies, but in retrospect I pinpointed some frustrations that my early approach to these études created. I then set out to design a different approach which would better fit my own musical needs and interests, including improvisatory and compositional practices, as well as challenging the technique/musicality dichotomy by engaging with the existing text with an emphasis on musicality. This process, documented with videos and self-reports, takes into account the context in which Popper published this études, and includes examples of creative exercises that, using the Popper method as a point of reference or otherwise, encourage me to expand my range of possibilities on the instrument as well as my musical imagination.
typeresearch exposition
keywordscello, David Popper, classical music, etudes, Art of Interpretation
date05/10/2023
published14/07/2025
last modified14/07/2025
statuslimited publication
copyrightEmma Zarzuela Castro
licensePublic domain
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2326016/3483571
published inKC Research Portal
portal issue3. Internal publication


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